The first time I went to Ambon, I watched a large population of dwarf (pygmy) cuttlefishes (Sepia bandensis) mate for days. They weren’t there when we went back this year, but I did see 6 cuttlefishes mating at Flasher Beach in Triton Bay, Indonesia. When you see two cuttlefishes together, don’t charge in and take pictures. Just sit back and watch. Eventually, they will go about their business again. In this case, the female hunted and scouted egg locations by “tapping” corals to see if anything was inside, and the male postured and fought for mating rights (amazing to see). The males become aggressively striped and “spiky” when they see another male, and eventually, the one male grabs the other and flips the other away. Per the sparring rituals of other species, neither of them appear to actually get hurt, but one clearly wins. I love seeing the entire process, from posturing to courting to mating to egg laying. In Ambon, we also saw eggs hatching, but I didn’t see that this time around.…